The political right hates AI a little less than the left, but not by super much, and some forces from the emerging America First movement are getting ready to protest AI’s invasiveness and capacity for manipulation. The org is called Humans First, and they’re trying to have a 50501-style nationwide protest about it on July 18th. If both sides cooperate on this one, good things can actually happen, so this should get talked about. A lot. https://www.humansfirst.com/
Fake ass protest. Conservatives love AI.
The cool new shill tactic is to pretend to be anti-AI or “concerned about AI” so they can hijack the conversation and re-direct people’s focus away from actual change and regulation. They bring up do-nothing solutions like “Local LLMs” or a there being a “public stake” in the industry.
Lemmy is absolutely thick with these cockroaches.
It’s fake concern all right. In Florida, DeSantis is term-limited out after this next election (YAY!), and Trump’s hand picked candidate is Byron Donaldson.
This week he started running anl campaign ad in which he shows concern for data centers, and has some utility rate protection he’s pushing. It makes him sound a bit anti-data center, so I looked it up.
Turns out he LOVES data centers, he’s just doing this one little thing so he can sound like he’s pushing back against them, and ease the biggest worry of MAGAs - higher utility bills. They don’t care if it destroys the environment, they just don’t want to pay more for it.
I think Conservative$ love it. But the “conservative base” doesn’t.
Yea the usual suspects are running something called plzdontkillus out of Berkeley this month which is an “anti AI” hype house. They are trying to hijack the message.
Or will only have issues with the datacenters and electric bills, but still want their free slop machine from those corporations.
Apparently DOGE was just a hallucination.